If you read something once you haven’t really read it at all. You’ve introduced yourself to it, not altogether unlike the way you would introduce yourself to a telephone solicitor and then courteously listen to his advertisement, which is highly unlikely to interest you. The reason for this is not hard to find if you […]
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A fascinating shark attack in Australia makes me wonder if its aptness as a metaphor for politics and therefore of the totally politicized world we are being forced to live in isn’t too obvious: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/27/shark-bites-shark-in-half_n_335346.html It’s about a giant shark cannibalizing another, smaller shark. I know that many people feel that is what life is
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The writer who writes to get his reader to agree with him is a child-writer; an under-developed mind. I don’t want you to agree with my propositions. I want you to see what I see – or at least what I am trying to see. Maybe you can help. If you see what I see
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